US A senior Pakistani Islamic militant warned that Muslim anger over Newsweek's "humiliating" story on the alleged desecration of the Koran will not subside despite the magazine's retraction. Russia Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business associate Platon Lebedev were found guilty by a Moscow court on a count of fraud, the first of 11 counts in the controversial trial. Uzbekistan More gunfire was heard in the eastern Uzbek town of Andijan, days after security forces reportedly killed hundreds of protestors, as Washington stepped up pressure on its Central Asian ally to show restraint. Iraq Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi arrived in Baghdad for a landmark visit and talks with the new leadership of Iraq, against which Tehran fought an eight-year war, an official said. Afghanistan A criminal gang claimed responsibility for the kidnap of an Italian aid worker in the Afghan capital Kabul and demanded the release from prison of its leaders, police said. Russia The trial of the only alleged hostage taker to be brought to justice after last year's Beslan school siege, which left 330 people dead, more than half of them children, opened in southern Russia. US A US military policewoman behind some of the most ghastly photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison was found guilty of severely abusing inmates and failing to carry out her army duties, a military spokesman said. Japan Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi arrived in Japan for an eight-day visit that could help ease tensions between the Asian powers, whose relations are at their lowest point in years. SriLanka Sri Lanka's international donors held a second and final day of talks as they sought to nudge warring parties to share aid and rebuild the war- and tsunami-devastated nation. Sudan An African mini-summit in Tripoli on peace efforts for Sudan's war-torn Darfur region was due to end with an agreement to resume talks between Khartoum and rebels within the next two weeks in Nigeria.